BREAKING NEWS ON JIMMY HOFFA!!!! Digging begins

[Catspaw]

I'd feel rather icky if I'd bought a house & known there was a dead body buried in the yard.

[Dan from Michigan]

Bay County?

I thought he was part of I-696..........

[zook]

Jimmy Hoffa's dead? When did this happen? Why was I not informed?

[Howlin]

Not to mention that people have JOBS in Michigan today, Willie! :-)

[CFW]

Nearly 28 years after his disappearance, Michigan authorities dig for evidence in Hoffa case
By Associated Press, 7/16/2003 13:11
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) Nearly 28 years after ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, law enforcement officials dug into the ground outside a home Wednesday to search for evidence, a prosecutor said.

Authorities from Oakland County were acting on a search warrant obtained Tuesday, county prosecutor David Gorcyca said.

The search warrant was executed Wednesday morning, but authorities ran into ''complications because of an above-ground pool over the dig sight,'' Gorcyca said. They were still digging in the early afternoon.

''We have some information that's come to us from a prisoner that's related to the Hoffa case,'' county Sheriff Michael Bouchard told the Detroit Free Press from the home's back yard.

He said the prisoner provided the information in the past few days, and ''we're skeptical, but feel we need to check it out.'' He added that the prisoner had provided credible information on other cases.

Hampton Township is located a few miles northeast of Bay City, which is 115 miles north of Detroit near Michigan's Thumb.

Hoffa vanished on the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from a parking lot in a Detroit suburb. He was on his way to a meeting with Anthony Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamsters boss, and Anthony Giacalone, a Detroit Mafia captain.

Investigators believe Provenzano and Giacalone had Hoffa killed to prevent him from regaining the union presidency after he served time in federal prison for jury tampering.

On the day he disappeared, authorities believe Hoffa climbed into a Mercury driven by family friend Chuckie O'Brien, was driven somewhere, killed and had his body disposed of.

O'Brien claims he was running errands when Hoffa disappeared. He has denied any involvement in the disappearance and investigators have yet to link him to it.

Last August, Gorcyca had said no state criminal charges would be filed and only a deathbed confession or cooperation of a witness would solve the mystery.

[amused]

I thought he was in Giants Stadium??

Under the 27 yard line. The ghost of Hoffa reaching up and causing fumbles has become NY Giant fan lore.

[rvoitier]

Hey, c'mon. Give the Feds a break. One thing at a time. hehehe.

[ewing]

I thought one of the goodfellas said on A&E that they dumped him in Lake Michigan?

[boomop1]

Is Jerry Rivers there?

[GranpaVet]

Maybe they will find Osama and Elvis in there too. Who is paying for this exactly?

[lelio]

I feel bad for the home owner if it's someone who wasn't involved in the whole thing originally.
I'm sure he's going to print up tee shirts that say "I lived above the dead Jimmy Hoffa and all I have is this lousy tee shirt"

[Fred Mertz]

Thanks for posting the article.

[theophilusscribe]

Something like this?

Or this?

[Catspaw]

De nada.

I didn't know if the Detroit papers had anything up yet--and MS Front Page makes it easy.

[honeygrl]

"The search warrant was executed Wednesday morning, but authorities ran into ''complications because of an above-ground pool over the dig sight,'' Gorcyca said. They were still digging in the early afternoon. "

I swear, if I was the homeowner and they didn't replace my pool afterward, I'd be suing someone. Anyone here know if they are required to fix whatever they mess up in the process?

[farmfriend]

They had better be using a 'union' digging crew!

That would be funny if it wasn't so true.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I think they have to put back everything the way it was unless the person who owns the pool is the criminal who placed Jimmy under it.

Ick, swimming over a dead mobster. Oh well, I guess it's better than swimming over a live one.

[Bars4Bill]

Are they going on concrete evidence?

[areafiftyone]

Now wait a minute. Wasn't he in the safe? Ask Geraldo!

[11th Earl of Mar]

I feel bad for the home owner if it's someone who wasn't involved in the whole thing originally.

I'm sure he's going to print up tee shirts that say "I lived above the dead Jimmy Hoffa and all I have is this lousy tee shirt"

Don't feel too sorry for the home owner.

He will probably sell it for a fortune on ebay next month.